Title: The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: It's Cause and Consequences Author: [Barrow, John] Place: London Publisher: John Murray Date: 1831 Description: xi, 356 pp. 6 engraved plates. 6x4, original cloth. First Edition. "This first edition was apparently the only authorized one. Barrow gives a most interesting account of the later fortunes of the mutineers; also an account of the voyage and wreck of the Pandora, bringing back the mutineers from Tahiti: the trial of the mutineers; letters written by Captain Peter Heywood to his sister; and the discovery of John Adams and the Bounty descendants on Pitcairn island." Hill, 69. This is the second issue, with "The Family Library. No. XXV" on front cover. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine strip neatly detached but present, with some darkening and wear at ends; some foxing/discoloration to cloth, old label of Grasnt & Bolton, Booksellers, Dublin, to lower front cover, foxing to endpapers, still very good. Item number: 204671
Title: The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: It's Cause and Consequences Author: [Barrow, John] Place: London Publisher: John Murray Date: 1831 Description: xi, 356 pp. 6 engraved plates. 6x4, original cloth. First Edition. "This first edition was apparently the only authorized one. Barrow gives a most interesting account of the later fortunes of the mutineers; also an account of the voyage and wreck of the Pandora, bringing back the mutineers from Tahiti: the trial of the mutineers; letters written by Captain Peter Heywood to his sister; and the discovery of John Adams and the Bounty descendants on Pitcairn island." Hill, 69. This is the second issue, with "The Family Library. No. XXV" on front cover. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine strip neatly detached but present, with some darkening and wear at ends; some foxing/discoloration to cloth, old label of Grasnt & Bolton, Booksellers, Dublin, to lower front cover, foxing to endpapers, still very good. Item number: 204671
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